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Christy's Minstrels, sometimes referred to as the Christy Minstrels, were a blackface group formed by Edwin Pearce Christy, a well-known ballad singer, in 1843, in Buffalo, New York. They were instrumental in the solidification of the minstrel show into a fixed three-act form. [2]
The New Christy Minstrels founder and primary songwriter, Randy Sparks, recounts six decades of folk music, the people he met along the way, and the memories they formed. top of page christmaswiththechristies-cutout-1
To learn more about The New Christy Minstrels, a most beloved and popular mixed voice folk group of the 1960's, please see the following link:https: ...
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The New Christy Minstrels (officially known as The New Christy Minstrels, Still Under the Direction of Randy Sparks) is an American large-ensemble folk music group founded by Randy Sparks in 1961. From their beginnings as prominent figures in the early-1960s U.S. folk revival, the group recorded over twenty albums and had several hits, including "Green, Green", "Saturday Night", "Today ...
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the New Christy Minstrels began with Randy Sparks, a singer/guitarist who started out in the late ’50s mixing folk and folk-style songs with Broadway material. He was leading his own trio by the start of the new decade, and saw the possibility of putting together an ensemble of ten voices, big enough generate a major sound but retaining the basic texture of a folk trio.
To a lot of casual listeners during the early '60s, the New Christy Minstrels were the embodiment of popular folk music. If they're not remembered (or writte...
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